Sed (Egyptian mythology)
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Sed was an ancient Egyptian deity in the form of a jackal. It is unclear whether Sed was an independent god or related to the jackal god Upuaut .
The earliest evidence of Sed can be found on the Palermostein , a fragment of the Annal Stone from the 5th Dynasty ( Old Kingdom ), where it is mentioned in inscriptions. The god was the theophoric part of personal names until the Middle Kingdom , before this was replaced by Upuaut. Sed was closely related to royalty, and the name of the Sedfest , the king's jubilee festival , probably goes back to this god. He was also associated with Maat , the concept of justice, world order and truth.
See also
literature
- Richard H. Wilkinson : The world of the gods in ancient Egypt. Faith - Power - Mythology. Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1819-6 , pp. 190-191.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Hannig : Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian - German. (2800-950 BC). The language of the pharaohs (= Hannig-Lexica. Vol. 1 = Cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 64), von Zabern, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 1242.